Browsing: Glen Sather

Top 10 Reasons Winning the Presidents’ Trophy Rocks By Jeff Yerger Why do we like hockey? What is it about this silly game that entices us? The easy answer, of course, is that we get joy from seeing our team win. Yet, for the die-hards … like us … it’s…

Hope you are all celebrating the birth of our nation with friends and/or family, and doing something special … … and doing something other than complaining about the god-awful hockey team you’ve had to watch the last four years. I kid. I kid. PS, if anybody wants to do a…

Rangers president/general manager Glen Sather handed over the team’s GM position to long-time assistant Jeff Gorton on Wednesday. Sather, named the team’s president/GM June 1, 2000 replacing fired Stanley Cup winner Neil Smith, will remain president. Gorton, who had handled a lot of the GM responsibilities the last several years,…

… but, Rick Nash today submits his list of 10 teams to which he would accept a trade as his no-move clause becomes a partial NMC. Not that I believe at all that he’ll be traded, but I guess it’s a possibility. Stay here all day for the action, which…

More thoughts: 1) So what happened Friday with Cam Talbot? Well, some of the fallout might provide some clues. We know that Buffalo dropped out early when it got Robin Lehner for a first-rounder. You can argue whether Lehner’s better than Talbot. His stats don’t say he is. But he’s…

Thoughts: 1) Right now, at this very moment, I think the Rangers are not as good as they were when they last played a hockey game. That’s just me. But when they were eliminated, I thought that they had only one legit first-line player, and he proved once again incapable…

From the NYR: RANGERS MAKE SEVEN SELECTIONS IN 2015 NHL ENTRY DRAFT Blueshirts select five forwards, one defenseman, and one goaltender NEW YORK, June 27, 2015 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather, along with Director of Player Personnel Gordie Clark, oversaw the club’s activity at the…

Glen Sather made two big moves early in the second round of the NHL draft Saturday. The Rangers GM got a lot less than originally anticipated as a return for backup goalie Cam Talbot in a deal to Edmonton for draft picks, and dealt Carl Hagelin to Anaheim for Emerson…

UPDATE: The Rangers traded Carl Hagelin and picks 59 and 179 to Anaheim for pick 41 and Emerson Etem, then drafted LW Ryan Gropp of Seattle (WHL) with the 41st pick just acquired. Gropp: 6-foot-2, 30-28-58 in 67 games last season. This is a cap-driven trade. Hagelin was due to…

As has been speculated here since late in the regular season, Larry Brooks reported today that the Rangers have parted ways with Martin St. Louis, whom they could not have afforded to keep at any price even if they wanted to keep him. So St. Louis, who is not retiring…

To see the Rangers’ 2015-16 regular-season schedule, click here. To see the regular-season schedules for all 30 NHL teams, click here. So, not surprisingly, the Cam Talbot trade talks are going down to the final 24 hours, if not the final hour, or even minutes. A deal for the Rangers’…

Vegas, baby! The NHL Awards show — a usually ridiculous, barely entertaining, at times insufferable extravaganza of strained jokes and questionable music — is tonight in Las Vegas. And, yes, the team that had the best regular-season in the NHL, has just two finalists for any award — coach Alain…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Alec Wilkinson is an award-winning journalist for The New Yorker for 35 years, the author of 10 books, and a long-time friend. He also happens to be, like most of you, a crazy Rangers fan.) By Alec Wilkinson We’re going to have to settle this thing about what…

Hey guys. Just thought you needed a new post, first of all, because the last one was getting long. But I also wanted to repeat something I said in the comments during or after Stanley Cup Final Game 6. This was a hell of a season on the blog, just…

ICYMI, Rangers president/GM Glen Sather, 71, would not confirm, but did not deny that he is considering stepping down, according to Larry Brooks in the New York Post. ************************************************* No truth to the rumor that Dan Girardi performed his own surgery, sans anesthesia. From the NYR: DAN GIRARDI AND MARC…

Click here for the boxscore with links to the game summary, etc. Thoughts: 1) That’s a pretty enormous win, fairly gutsy, etc. And I certainly don’t want to be Negative Nancy or Debbie Downer. But, Alain Vigneault might want to go against his “never critique a win” creed before Game…

GREENBURGH – Keith Yandle on Wednesday declared himself fit and ready to go for Game 1 of the Rangers’ second-round series against Washington at the Garden Thursday. Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said that Kevin Klein is also ready, and that barring something unforeseen between practice Wednesday and gametime, Klein would…

Here is my story from lohud.com: By Rick Carpiniello The man behind the curtain has the best team in the NHL, the Las Vegas favorite to win the Stanley Cup. It took some time, obviously, for Rangers president and general manager Glen Sather to fix what was broken — whether…

Catching up on today’s news (sans April Fools jokes). Rangers prospect Brady Skjei, a defenseman picked 28th overall in the first round of the 2012 draft, decided to leave college and first signed an amateur tryout contract with Hartford (AHL), then signed his entry-level contract. Skjei’s entry-level contract begins next…